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Residential Care and Disability Support Services Act 2018

Home-based disability support services

63: Deprivation of income or assets

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"You must not hide income or assets to pay less for disability support services"

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If you have applied for or received an assessment for home-based disability support services, this section applies to you. You or your spouse or partner must not have hidden or taken away any of your income or assets on purpose. If the Ministry of Social Development thinks you have done this, they can still work out how much you can pay for your services as if you had not hidden or taken away your income or assets. The Ministry of Social Development can look at your situation again and decide how much you can pay for your home-based disability support services. You can find more information by looking at the related legislation.

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Part 8Home-based disability support services

63Deprivation of income or assets

  1. This section applies if—

  2. a person has applied for, or has received, an assessment under this Part; and
    1. MSD is satisfied that the person or the person’s spouse or partner has directly or indirectly deprived the person of any income or assets.

      1. MSD may assess, or revise the assessment of, the person’s ability to pay for that person’s home-based disability support services as if that deprivation had not occurred.

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